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Apendicetomía no terapéutica: revisión de 1 año en el Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Montevideo, Uruguay

Objetivos: La apendicitis aguda es una de las patologías quirúrgicas más frecuentes en pediatría y la apendicectomía un procedimiento históricamente probado para su tratamiento. Sin embargo, se ha llamado la atención sobre la morbilidad y costos que implican los casos de apendicectomías no terap...

Dehiscences and fenestrations: methodological care necessary to avoid errors in diagnosis and measurement

ABSTRACT The low prevalence of gingival recessions observed in orthodontic clinical practice may be assigned to the fact that in studies in which dehiscences and bone fenestrations are described as frequent, they were diagnosed based on: 1) dry skull studies; 2) areas with periosteal reflection together ...

Crusted scabies due to indiscriminate use of glucocorticoid therapy in infant

An. bras. dermatol; 92 (3), 2017
Abstract Crusted or Norwegian scabies is a parasitic infectious disease caused by Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis that mainly affects immunocompromised individuals and those with neurological patients. We report a case of crusted scabies in a 4-month-old infant who had been treated erroneously for atopic ...

Error en el informe radiológico: la paradoja del elefante en la habitación y otros tropiezos

Rev. chil. radiol; 23 (2), 2017
The expression "there is an elephant in the room" refers to an obvious problem that goes unnoticed. Often we wonder how it was possible that we have not reported a major lesion ("the size of an elephant") in the report that comes into our hands for review. Unlike clinical findings such as the anamnesis a...

Differential diagnosis and clinical management of periapical radiopaque/hyperdense jaw lesions

Abstract Great attention has been given to the study of radiolucent periapical lesions to avert possible misdiagnosis of apical periodontitis associated with certain radiolucent non-endodontic lesions. However, there are a significant number of radiopaque lesions found in the periapical region, which cou...

Apendicitis aguda
Acute appendicitis

Con el uso de las imágenes de creciente sensibilidad, el número de pacientes con diagnóstico de apendicitis ha aumentado, y una significativa proporción de ellos puede no progresar a apendicitis clínicamente relevante o puede resolver espontáneamente y evitar la apendicectomía. Existen reglas de p...

Coexistence of resistance to thyroid hormone and ectopic thyroid: ten-year follow-up

SUMMARY Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) coexisting with ectopic thyroid is rare. Here we report a case of RTH with ectopic thyroid. A ten-year-old girl had been misdiagnosed as congenital hypothyroidism and treated with levothyroxine since she was born. Ten-year follow-up showed that the elevated thy...

Perception of stroke symptoms and utilization of emergency medical services

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 74 (11), 2016
ABSTRACT Lack of stroke awareness and slow activation of emergency medical services (EMS) are frequently reported reasons for delayed arrival to the hospital. We evaluated these variables in our population. Methods Review of hospital records and structured telephone interviews of 100 consecutive stroke...

High frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in patients with fibromyalgia: random association or misdiagnosis?

Rev. bras. reumatol; 56 (5), 2016
ABSTRACT Fibromyalgia (FM) and hyperparathyroidism may present similar symptoms (musculoskeletal pain, cognitive disorders, insomnia, depression and anxiety), causing diagnostic confusion. Objectives: To determine the frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in a sample of patients with FM and to e...